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aimee dewante5100 S Cornell Ave Apt 805
Chicago, IL 60615
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Aimee has traveled far from her home town in northern California to explore her passions for cultural investigation, swimming, and the art of photography.
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Housing BlockIndividual Project
Professor Andrew Schachman
Fall 2013
Why is everyone eating alone? The celibataire is on the rise in today’s society, despite the fact that humans are incredibly social animals who crave interac-tion with others. Those who do live alone must seek opportunities elsewhere to satiate these cravings. Why doesn’t our lonely celibataire simply eat his microwavable pasta with his neighbors down the hall? Better yet, why don’t they cook a meal together? In a housing block consisting of over two hundred units, this seems like a very real possibility. The reason it doesn’t already happen is because our current ideas about housing, ownership, security, and individuality are keeping us from the kinds of opportunities social housing could provide.
This semester I focused on a proposal that answers this question while paying special attention to the process of design. New methods were learned and practiced for generating ideas and evaluating the results in a productive way in order to create a com-prehensive building proposal.
A housing development of this size presents the chal-lenge of working at several different scales at one time. Each room of each unit had to be designed while keeping in mind the buildings these units made up, the block the buildings resided in, and the city sur-rounding the block.
Heavy research, iterations, and refinement were struc-tured as a way to control the design process.
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Visualized Data: Distance travelled relative to activity and social level Student Unit organized by social level and time of activity
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KitchenYard Entire Unit Living Room WC Bathroom Bedroom
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S P A C E Adjacent Communicative SocialSolitary
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KitchenYard Entire Unit Living Room WC Bathroom Bedroom
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S P A C E Adjacent Communicative SocialSolitary
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Catelog of unitsTop: Stair Core Approach / Bottom: Cascading Stair Approach
STUDENT UNIT
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UNIT TYPOLOGIES SOLITARY SPACE THRESHOLD
SINGLE UNIT
COUPLE UNIT
SMALL FAMILY UNIT
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COUPLE + PROFESSIONAL + SMALL FAMILY CLUSTER 1 : 75
Couple + Professional + Small Family Cluster
STUDENT + STUDENT + PROFESSIONAL CLUSTER 1 : 75
Student + Student + Professional Cluster09 :
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Intersection
Front Door
Logan Park: Master PlanDesign Partner: Phil Wira
Professors Catherine Wetzel and Paul Endres
Spring 2014
The Logan Park proposal transforms a portion of the current boulevard system into one mile of linear parks consisting of elements suitable to neighboring blocks while still accommodating non-programmed leisure space. The field house at the corner of Logan Boule-vard and Milwaukee avenue supports these parks.
Logan Square is centered around a multi-purpose space to be used for the weekly farmers market and community meetings as well as special events such as concerts and festivals.
Kedzie is redirected to the west of the square, becom-ing a major through street and calming traffic on the remaining three sides. This allows the square and the boulevard parks to operate as one for recreation and leisure.
Logan Square during the weekly Farmer’s Market
Anchoring Shifting Communities:Reconceiving Logan Boulevard as a Linear Park
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Existing Condition
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Logan Boulevard transformed into a mile of linear parks
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Proposed Changes
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Intersection
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Logan Square reimagined. Above: Surface, Tree, and Traffic Plans
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Field house at the corner of Logan Boulevard and Milwaukee Avenue
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The Weft Master PlanDesign Partners: Ricardo Fernandez Gonzalez, Kathleen Sathern, Aristeo Contreras
Professor Susan Conger-Austin
Fall 2014
The weft is the horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in woven fabric. Without the weft, the fabric would fall apart. Because IIT Perspectives is so iso-lated from the Bronzeville community, and there is an abundance of open space, our proposal is a weft to tie the community together to form a strong fabric rich in culture year round.
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Vacant Land surrounding Perspectives MSAPerspectives MSA in Bronzeville21 :
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disconnecTed from communiTy abundance of open space
Top: STEM element parks / Bottom: Walking distance between parksTop: Future development / Bottom: Strong North/South infrastructure23 :
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Photographs: Models of Weft ParksCatelog of Weft Parks, sample page
WIND PARK: 5 minutesA
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Description:
The Wind Park will be lo-cated at the corner of 35th and State Street and will take advantage of the wind tunnel that al-ready exists in that lo-cation. It will help to bridge the path over the expressway while also connect with the stu-dents at IIT.
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Bath HouseIndividual Project
Professor Martin Klaeschen
Spring 2013
The bath house used interior program and reinforced concrete as a focus of study. I focused on design process and interior lighting conditions. Natural light manipulation drove the project and corresponds directly with programatic elements of the building.
Project development relied on study models in which lighting was studied in a tangible way, and through sketches in which spatial organization was explored to create these lighting conditions.
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Bath House Floor Plan Top: Exterior rendering / Bottom: Massing and organization process29 :
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Tepidarium as a contemplative space Frigidarium as a space to socialize31 :
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aimee dewante5100 S Cornell Ave Apt 805
Chicago, IL 60615
773 236 0124
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